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Dawn Team

Customer.io is a SaaS product that provides infrastructure to send triggered emails users to improve an app’s engagement level with users.

Customer.io receives data about user behavior through on-site javascript code as well as a RESTful API.

Customer.io has rules to match users in various conditions like “hasn’t logged in in 30 days” or “has not connected to facebook”. Users who match conditions receive emails encouraging them to change their behavior. Customer.io measures the effectiveness of those emails and allows its customers to continuously tweak and improve their triggered email campaigns.

Exited

autobutler

Autobutler is an online and impartial workshop portal where you as a car owner easily and simply obtain quotes and execute repair and servicing of your car with some of the best garages available. Autobutler is the way to save money on your next repair whatever task you need done on your car. Autobutler gives you access to the necessary transparency, confidence and knowledge of the offers received and show you the way to a good repair shop and offers near you.

Automile

Automile, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, was founded in 2013 by serial entrepreneur Jens Nylander along with Felix Rosén and Jacob Pontén. The company aims to connect all cars to the cloud via a low cost, self-installed, and simple to use device that works globally on all vehicles. The first product, Automile PRO, automates trip reporting and legal compliance whilst offering significant savings to fleet owners through reducing fleet risk, lower insurance and maintenance costs, and higher overall safety. Launched in September 2014, today the product is used by hundreds of fleets in Europe and the US giving the company one of the largest and fastest growing car sensor databases in the world.

Exited

Bathrooms.com

Bathrooms.com is a market leader in online retail of bathroom products. They provide the best quality showers, baths, bathroom taps, toilets, bathroom basins and just about anything else you might need to finish your dream bathroom.

Bitmovin

Bitmovin is an Austria and San Francisco based IaaS company selling an end to end cloud-based video platform to developers via API. The platform cuts video buffering times, improves video quality and cuts compute and bandwidth costs related to serving video.

Exited

BitYota

BitYota delivers a warehouse-as-a-service for Big Data Analytics.
SaaS takes away both Big Cost and Big Headache making Big Data analytics
accessible in the fastest, affordable way to the most number of users,
with no compromise on functionality or service levels.

BitYota
was founded by data experts Dev Patel, Harmeek Bedi and Soren Riise.
Its core team has 35+ years of big data experience at Yahoo, Oracle,
Veritas/Symantec, Informix, BMC, Kabira/Tibco, and Twitter. It has
raised $12M through Seed and Series A funding from Globespan Capital,
The Social+Capital Partnership, Dawn Capital, Andreessen Horowitz,
Crosslink Capital, Morado Ventures, and individual investors Maynard
Webb, Graham Summers, Jerry Yang and Sharmila Mulligan.

Collibra

Collibra Corporation is the industry’s only global data governance provider founded to address data management from the business stakeholder perspective. Delivered through a cloud-based or on-premise solution, Collibra is the trusted data authority that provides data stewardship, data governance and data management for the enterprise business user. Combining entrepreneurial roots with software and artificial intelligence expertise, Collibra was founded in 2008 and has locations in New York, London, Wroclaw and Brussels.

Conversocial

Conversocial is a leading provider of cloud-based social customer service solutions. Our enterprise-class platform helps global brands revolutionize customer experience, enhance agent productivity and improve operational efficiency by managing the flow of customer service inquiries and discussions on social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and YouTube.

Crate.io

Crate.io is enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) era with CrateDB, an open-source, real-time SQL database purpose-built for processing millions of structured and unstructured machine data points per second. CrateDB uniquely combines the familiarity of SQL with the data flexibility of NoSQL, and the scalability ease of containers. CrateDB is used by industrial and consumer IoT and machine data innovators like Alpla, Comcast and Skyhigh Networks.

CustomerIO

Customer.io is a SaaS product that provides infrastructure to send triggered emails users to improve an app’s engagement level with users.

Customer.io receives data about user behavior through on-site javascript code as well as a RESTful API.

Customer.io has rules to match users in various conditions like “hasn’t logged in in 30 days” or “has not connected to facebook”. Users who match conditions receive emails encouraging them to change their behavior. Customer.io measures the effectiveness of those emails and allows its customers to continuously tweak and improve their triggered email campaigns.

Exited

eCommera

Evrythng

EVRYTHNG is a SaaS company making products smart by connecting them to the web. Companies use the EVRYTHNG platform to manage their connected products, make product operations smarter with real-time tracking analytics, and help their customers connect to products in a smarter way.

The EVRYTHNG Engine helps companies to manage billions of intelligent online identities for their products in the cloud. World-leading consumer brands work with EVRYTHNG to operate applications linked to individual items as they are made, sold and used, making their supply chains smarter and connecting products more cleverly to people's lives.

FanDuel

FanDuel is now the leading daily fantasy sports game for NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL, targeting the 30+ million adult fantasy sports players in North America, with the aim of transforming the live sports experience through fast paced premium sports games. Players draft fantasy sports teams at any time in head-to-head or multi-player contests, paying an entry fee for each contest and vie for cash prizes. In 2013 the company awarded over $150m in prizes and is on course to award over $400m in 2014.

Exited

FirstCare

First Care provides absence, occupational health and safety services to large UK companies and organizations. The core service is Absence Management from Day One provided via a Nurse Call Centre and a sophisticated IT system that is fully internet and web enabled. The company has extensive experience of supporting their clients in reducing absence in their organisations. FirstCare is a dynamic, client focused company that is the one of the market leaders in absence management in the UK.

The clients are from both the public and private sectors and include NHS Trusts, train operating companies, utility companies, retail operations and professional service providers.

Dawn became an investor in Autumn 2009 through the merger with Active Health Partners and Haakon Overli sits on the board.

Gelato

Gelato Group is building the world's most intelligent print cloud without owning a single print machine.

The platform bundles thousands of daily print orders - allocated to print capacity in the closest market to the order. Orders are printed and delivered to 38 countries in less than 72 hours - covering 800 Million people on any device.Since 2008 over 50 Million people have received print materials delivered by Gelato Group.

Exited

Icontrol

Making the "digital home" a reality, the iControl OpenHome software platform enables leading broadband service providers and home security companies to offer next generation broadband home management services to their customers, including interactive home security, home monitoring, home management and control, energy management and home health care.

iZettle

iZettle is a social payments company, enabling secure and seamless P2P and B2C commerce on the go, via tablets and smart-phones. The first service includes a fully integrated payments solution, consisting of an app, a chipcard reader and a free business management software tool that lets anyone take card payments and manage their business.

iZettle was first launched in Sweden in the summer of 2011 and is now available to individuals and small businesses across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the UK, Germany, Spain, Mexico and Brazil.

Exited

miinto

Miinto is a rapidly-growing e-commerce marketplace which enables independent high street fashion boutiques to market and sell their products to consumers online.

The company was established by the founding team and investors from Just-Eat, the Europe-wide platform which similarly allowed independent restaurants to develop an e-commerce presence, and the Miinto founders identified the vertical of high-street fashion boutiques as an equally ripe market to disrupt.

The business is a first-mover in the many-to-many marketplace for mass market fashion, with over 1500 boutiques signed up across its first seven markets, and with a very strong focus on ‘main street’ retailing.

IPO November 2015

mimecast

Mimecast has introduced a novel approach to the way companies manage their email security, continuity and archiving. It is called Unified Email Management and it takes care of a company’s requirements with no hardware, software or capital expense for the customers.

The typical stack of email technologies, like gateways, anti-spam systems, email archives, continuity facilities, email marketing, policy control and virus protection, are all replaced by the Mimecast service offered on a Software as a Service basis.

Minute Media

Minute Media is a leading sports media and technology company, powered by authentic and socially driven content created by the fans, for the fans. Minute Media develops products that enable fans to create, publish, share and distribute sports content around the world. This unique approach to covering sports fuses topical sports stories with everyday pop culture, creating a fresh new voice in the world of sports media. Minute Media’s family of sports destinations includes 90min, 12up and DBLTAP.

Neo4j

Creators of the World’s Leading Graph Database. Neo Technology enables organizations to unlock the business value of connections, influences and relationships in data: through new applications that can adapt to changing business needs, and by enabling existing applications to scale with the business. Headquartered in San Mateo, USA, Neo Technology has offices in Sweden, UK, Germany, and France.

obillex

Obillex is a supply chain finance technology company. Since 2010, Obillex’s team of technology, funding, payments and trade finance experts have set out to solve the finance problem faced by small and medium sized businesses in getting paid on time. In conjunction with discussions with the government, Obillex have developed its proprietary platform so that accredited investors can help fill the funding gap faced by SMEs. The Obillex solution enables bank and non-bank investors to directly support SMEs at a low cost through its innovative technology solution.

Property Partner

Property Partner is a marketplace for the purchase and trading of shares in UK and international residential and commercial properties.

Retail investors can invest from £50 upwards into any property. The purchase of shares is either on the primary market, into newly available properties listed on the platform, where the whole purchase is crowdfunded; alternatively, the investor may buy or sell shares on the liquid secondary market, in previously purchased properties.

Showpad

Sonovate

Sonovate is an innovative SaaS product for the SME recruitment industry, which offers workflow tools along with a funding line for the working capital needs of contract and temporary agencies. The business is tackling a $6bn addressable market, based on providing financing for the $300bn of annual temporary and contract HR placements

Exited

Sticky

Sticky is an online, biometric eye-tracking analytics company that helps publishers, advertisers and agencies make more money from real people paying attention. Sticky has taken eye-tracking out of the lab by creating a cost-effective, highly-scalable webcam solution that goes beyond viewability to what’s actually SEEN(TM). Sticky’s disruptive technology gives publishers what they need to optimize for consumer engagement, and marketers what they need to get better value for their advertising spend. Sticky is how to get more real humans engaged and paying attention.

Wonga

Wonga.com is a ground-breaking online lender based in London. Wonga.com is a young business which is rapidly becoming one of the UK’s most innovative credit businesses. The mission is to provide consumers with instant money whenever they need it - Wonga.com calls it cash on demand.

Dawn became an investor in Autumn 2008 and had a board seat until 2010. Capital for Enterprise Ltd is not an investor in Quickbridge.

Dawn Capital is joined by Oak, Wellcome Trust, Balderton Capital, Greylock and Accel as the other major instiutional investors.

zumper

Zumper is is attacking the North American and European markets for rental properties, with an auction site which allows agents and landlords to market, auction and close property tenancies on a single platform.

The platform allows cost to be removed from the system, including the need for agents to collate and review multiple sets of application materials; only a single viewing day is needed, with significant volume of applicants to drive interest in the property; the tenants are delivered by Zumper, reducing the broker’s own marketing costs; and, finally, automated legal contracts are generated.